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HARRIET M. FISH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 67,182, dated July 30, 1867.

IMPROVED ROUGE-PAD.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, HARRIET h'I. FISH, of the city and county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful manufacture known as a Rouge-Pad, to be used in the art of embellishing the human skin; and I do hereby declare the following to be such a'full, clear, and exact description thereof, as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In practising my invention, I take a soft cotton fabric, known as Canton flannel, which for this purpose should be made with a pile on both sides. I then make a solution of the best quality of car-mine and the juice of the blood-beet, strawberry, and hollyhock root, together with the-extract of sweet clover and. water; These ingredients I combine or unite in about the following proportions, that is to say, carmine, one-twelfth of an ounce; powdered bcet juicc,one-twelfth of an ounce; strawberry juice, one-twelfth of an ounce; extract of hollyhock root, one-twelfth of an ounce; extract of, sweet clover, one-twelfth of an ounce: water enough to make a thin solution.

In this solution I thoroughly saturate the fabric as often as may be necessary to suflicient-ly charge it with the coloring matter. After the fabric has dried the pad may be cut to thedesired form and size and put up for market, orthe fabric may be cut previous to the application of the coloring matter, as maybe found most expedient.

The application of the coloring matter is made to the skin by simply dampening and rubbing the pad-against:

it, whenever it may be desired.

I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Uniting or combining, with a soft cotton or other suitable fabric, a solution, consisting of the aforementioned ingredients, without intending to confine myself tothe proportions thereof as therein given.

2. I claim the manufacture of a rouge-pad, by uniting or combining, with a soft cotton or other suitable fabric, a coloring matter, consisting of the abovermentioncd ingredients, or their equivalents, for this purpose, substantially as described. p

HARRIET M. FISH. Witnesses:

Amos BROADN-AX,

ISAAC S. MILLER. 

